Comment by zokier
2 years ago
Yet the most popular editor is vscode which is browser based and has all the rendering tech just sitting there, largely unused.
2 years ago
Yet the most popular editor is vscode which is browser based and has all the rendering tech just sitting there, largely unused.
I got an answer to a similar problem that VSCode needs working cursors out of the view where the text is not rendered. That is why it relies on the text grid for all layout and movement. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/142738#issuecomme...
Fair, but the markup bit is still killer. Imagine the engineering hours that have been spent avoiding writing plain old HTML.